[Reader-users] Credit card question

[David Evans]

Dear Tammy,

You might try to take the picture from a flatter angle so as to minimize the 
flash reflection back at the camera.
You can also take a piece of paper and lay it over the card and use a pencil 
to scribble  back and forth over the raise numbers and then take a picture 
of the piece of paper and compare that to what you got from your picture of 
the card the first time.
Hopefully this will identify all of the numbers for you.
There are also a pin code set of numbers on the back of the card as an added 
security step that you might be asked for if ordering something over the 
phone.

David Evans
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves1 at carolina.rr.com>
To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list" 
<reader-users at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 11:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Reader-users] Credit card question


> Hi --
> I just tried it on my credit card and got partial success -- 
> * it read the name of the card (except for the logo and fancy graphic
> characters),
> * then the first 8 numbers (the last 8 numbers were punched over a 
> hologram
> and I think that reflected crazily when the camera flashed),
> * then it read the expiration date correctly except that the slash between
> the month and year read as a 1 -- not hard to live with that as it is easy
> to interpret.
>
> I tried it again with the flash turned off and it failed miserably to
> recognize more than a few letters -- not enough light.
> Then I tried it again with the flash and got results almost identical to 
> the
> first try.
>
> So it isn't there yet but it is working fine on some of the raised 
> numbers.
> The trick is that hologram.
> Oh, and text that is printed is recognized fine.
>
> Thinking about the hologram, I wonder if the hologram is there partly to
> prevent easy copying -- but then the machines that swipe the cards work...
> Happy reading!
> --le
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "tammy cantrell" <t.l.cantrell at comcast.net>
> To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader users list"
> <reader-users at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 11:26 PM
> Subject: [Reader-users] Credit card question
>
>
> Has anybody had luck reading their credit card numbers with the reader?  I
> tried it and I got the message that it was processing the image.  This
> message repeated many times and never completed.  Just checking to see if 
> it
> was me or the cards.  Thanks for the input!
> Smile! GOD loves you!
>
>
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